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Reducing Time to Degree in Philosophy Doctoral Programs (guest post)

The median time-to-degree for a PhD in philosophy in the United States is nearly 7 years. Is that too long?

February 23, 2024
Using Generative AI to Teach Philosophy (w/ an interactive demo you can try) (guest post)

Philosophy teachers—Michael Rota, a professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), is about to make your teaching a bit better and your life…

February 22, 2024
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February 22, 2024
Dialectica and the Challenges of Converting a Journal to Open Access

A reader recently pointed out that the philosophy journal Dialectica in 2020 became an open access journal, after 15 years of being published by…

February 21, 2024
Deciding Between Grad Programs: What Questions to Ask? Of Whom?

Applicants to graduate programs in philosophy are now hearing from admissions committees and will have decisions to make about which to attend, or whether…

February 20, 2024
Lenhard Wins 2024 Covey Award

Johannes Lenhard (Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University) has been selected as the winner of the 2024 Covey Award by the board of the International Association for…

February 20, 2024
Paulin J. Hountondji (1942-2024)

Paulin Jidenu Hountondji, an influential African philosopher, died earlier this month.

February 20, 2024
Viehoff from NYU to Berkeley

Daniel Viehoff, currently associate professor of philosophy at New York University, will be moving to the University of California, Berkeley, where he will be…

February 19, 2024
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February 19, 2024
Rasmussen from Azusa to Baylor

Joshua Rasmussen, currently associate professor of philosophy at Azusa Pacific University, will be moving to Baylor University, where he will be professor of philosophy.

February 19, 2024
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

February 19, 2024
Site Damage & Repair (updated)

Daily Nous suffered an as-of-yet unexplained “critical error” tonight. The site was down for several hours and could only get back online by restoring…

February 17, 2024
Are Your Students Doing The Reading?

And if they’re not, what can be done to get them to do it? Or is that the wrong way to think about it?

February 16, 2024
Leverhulme Trust to Investigate One of Its Philosophy Fellows at Cambridge (updated)

The Leverhulme Trust, a philanthropy in London which provides grants and fellowships to scholars across a range of disciplines, has launched an investigation of one…

February 15, 2024
The Influence of Translations in Philosophy: The Case of the Tractatus

You know that famous last line of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”? That’s not quite what he said,…

February 15, 2024
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February 14, 2024
Philosophy’s Digital Future (guest post)

“The crucial question for any academic system is how filtering works. Information is cheap. What we want is some way to identify the most valuable…

February 13, 2024
One Front in the Fight for Philosophy’s Survival in the US: High Schools

One obstacle undergraduate philosophy programs in the United States face is student unfamiliarity with philosophy.

February 12, 2024
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

February 12, 2024
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February 9, 2024

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Dreams can come true it can happen to you — if someone forgets to renew a software license
Explanations are “mental acts, not just facts” — Chaz Firestone looks at Tania Lombrozo's new book on explanation
“What shape is this paradox?” sounds like a category mistake — but mathematicians have an explanation for why the Condorect Paradox is in the shape of a Klein bottle
“The tragedy is that many people today are deprived of both good company and good solitude. They do not feel truly met by others, and they do not feel at home in themselves” — Amir Zadnemat on loneliness (via The Browser)
Is metaphysics about looking for some kind of fundamental level? Does reality come in levels? If so, do they stand in relations of fundamentality? Might it be levels all the way down? Why down? — Kit Fine and Timothy Williamson debate metaphysics
“Real relationships with people are what’s good for us. And if we don’t get that, even if we don’t know we don’t get it, it’s still bad for us.” — Valerie Tiberius is interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio about the limits of AI "friendship"
Kant thought the indigenous people of the Americas were a race “too weak for hard work, too indolent for assiduous labor and unsuited to any cultivation” — but, as Arnaud Pelletier notes, that not what his source said. So why did Kant say it?
“Proportional to student body size,” the number of students majoring in philosophy at Harvard is “about 10 times the national average” — why is philosophy doing so well there?
A philosophy prof’s mission statement: “reproducing the foundations of Western civilization, one lecture at a time” — one challenge, says Joseph Heath, is that "the two sets of governing principles in our society—liberalism… and capitalism—are second-best arrangements"
“Philosophy: head and heart” — Stephen Darwall's 2024 Dewey Lecture
Is there anything to the concept of “intrinsic human dignity”? — yes, says Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, and "it names a burden as much as a distinction"
“Intuition is the cognitive means by which the conceptual structure of a situation is revealed to us” — whether that situation is a stylized thought experiment or a real world experience, says Marc A. Moffett
“Professors can’t fix the problem on their own” — Victor Kumar on what university administrators need to do address AI's threat to higher education
“The wall between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which had sustained his theory for almost half a century, was no longer sturdy” — a profile of Michael Walzer, focusing on his thoughts about just war theory and the Israeli-Palestine conflict
We may think that we lose something significant when AI beats us to a discovery — if we do, Daniel Greco says, that seems to imply we gained something significant, too
“Once upon a time there were a couple of handsome naturalistic philosophers working in and around the philosophy of fiction” — thoughts on new directions in philosophy of fiction, from several philosophers
What is the debate over whether trans women are women even about? — Katie Zhou argues that it's about which facts are granted "the cross-contextual significance and stickiness characteristic of gender"
We’re putting human brain cells into mice brains — One moral risk of this, says Mackenzie Graham, is a decrease in our ability to interpret what mice behavior tells us about their experiences and welfare
The Rawls Game — with instructions, background, advice, and downloadable character cards
“The central question would shift from ‘How do we maximize shareholder value?’ to ‘How do different forms of organization distribute power, risk and reward — and which should we strengthen?'” — Chris Marquis on the case for abolishing, or at least radically changing, business schools

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P D Van Pelt on Humanist Gets Religious Exemption from Using AI at Work
Seems like a bad move, to me.
doris on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
In the martial arts, it's said, "the advanced technique in one style is a beginning tecnique in another." Seems like a lot of interdisciplinary work, mine included, exploits…
Rando on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
If I submit a paper in which I am perceived to be reinventing the wheel *in the philosophy literature*, the paper will receive a quick, ruthless rejection. I…
Connie Price on Alphonso Lingis (1933-2025)
I learned only today of his passing. I never forgot him, one of the Penn State Philosophy giants who knew and taught and lived and wrote the freedom.…
Felix on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
This mischaracterization on your part speaks to a comment I made above about how I found it unlikely that some of the people who spoke at some of…
Michel on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
Hear hear!
Meme on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Do you still think negative existentials are contingently zero-grounded? I love that paper.
Citation man on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
Another thing that might be worth distinguishing here is intentional and unintentional non-engagement / under-citation? Isn't it possible that some people publishing on meta-linguistic negotiation (indeed, myriad other…
Jack on When Philosophers Reinvent The Wheel
I think giving talks also play a role in this process, at least in philosophy. In the cases I'm familiar with, where people were omitting relevant literature in…
Moti Gorin on The Vanderbilt Report’s Sub-Report on Philosophy
“if you look at philosophy of gender and sex from the perspective of ordinary scholars who don’t also engage in extra scholarly political activism of the sort that…
Nicholas Denyer on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
My college is located in a majority ES country. I can think offhand of 20 fellows of the college in philosophy. Of those 20, 8 do not have…
Keith Douglas on Humanist Gets Religious Exemption from Using AI at Work
Depending on the tools, one may in fact be forced to use it by the actions generally in the environment. For example, the Copilot parts of M365 will…
Neri on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Yes, it's in the top journals category, but not in the "big 4" one.
Holothurian on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
I had no idea opposition to AI-abuse was endemic to "all-white, English-speaking philosophers."
Just Saying on Underrepresentation of Non-Native English Speakers in Philosophy: Findings from over 100,000 Papers (guest post)
Here is a quote from you: "We defined top journals in two ways: broadly, as the thirty or so journals ranked in the Leiter Reports polls, and narrowly,…

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